Best Blue Mage

[Wolf Kanno]

While I never got far into the game, I did some research on things and I honestly feel that XI had the coolest Blue Mages in the series from a story setting. I mean damn, it's a bit dark for the series if you think about but utterly cool.

[Aelitalily]

When I used to play those Blue Mage would host crazy exp parties (I'm not sure how many of them are required) where they would "cleave" a bunch of enemies to death for lowbies who could afford to pay the gil...

Personally I never levelled BLU, I have heard really good things about the class and a lot of instances where they would be required for certain abilities/tasks.

[Del Murder]

I agree. The lore for BLU in this game was awesome. BLU was my main for many years and I had much fun. We have such a diverse bag of tricks that we could do almost anything, especially in the post-75 cap days.

Unfortunately my Blue Mage was too hardcore so he ended up turning into a mindflayer.